Example sentences of "they would have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had not been for a visitor arriving then and her being obliged to leave instantly she had no doubt they would have waded into deeper waters and she knew she would not have been sorry . |
| 2 | They could increase their holdings of capital , by charging more in depreciation than they would have charged in principal repayments . |
| 3 | Normally they would have waited until such time as the national ballot had been held and then they would have taken the appropriate action afterwards . |
| 4 | Yeah , that is the saving that they would have made on each of those builds . |
| 5 | For perhaps three seconds guilt was all they did feel , the simple , shocked guilt they would have felt before any adult . |
| 6 | Visitors are guided through the baths as they would have appeared in Roman times by artists ' reconstructions , spoken commentaries and fascinating computer graphics . |
| 7 | Assuming a generational period of , say , twenty-five years , they would have gone through 5½ million generations — more than fifty times the prehistory of Man . |
| 8 | The major field monuments , which are better documented , almost certainly provided the foci in the landscape , around which such subsistence settlements would have been placed and to which they would have looked for some specialised goods and services . |
| 9 | ‘ If the museum had n't offered an opportunity , they would have looked for another . ’ |
| 10 | They would have read about these things happening , but now it has come to their own door it has been greeted with great sadness . ’ |
| 11 | There were also financial losses to the British Electricity Authority from having to operate old and inefficient plant for more extended periods than they would have chosen in normal times : in the early 1950s the extra cost of burning scarce coal inefficiently was reckoned at £3½ millions a year at the low official coal prices of the time , though the real resource cost was somewhat higher than this . |
| 12 | In that case , the sum of the values of the parts of a thing should not be equated with the sum of the values they would have had outside that whole . |
| 13 | Had they seen billions of neutrons as well as the heat then they would have known for sure that fusion was occurring ; and may already have begun to worry about their health from prolonged exposure . |
| 14 | Twenty percent of our patients would have had recurrence in that year , but on the basis of our experience , we think it unlikely they would have come to any great harm , as a result of having their cystoscopy delayed , and we would recommend this protocol to the management of superficial bladder cancer . |
| 15 | I wished our teenage children had been with us , they would have revelled in all the water sports , in the bay . |
| 16 | For example , the Altrincham governors could have argued that there was a safety risk in the girls wearing scarves in the laboratory or workshop — although it is by no means clear that they would have succeeded on this basis . |